(FoxNews) – The man who got generations of hot dog lovers humming along to the Oscar Mayer Wiener song has died.

According to an obituary posted online by a northern Illinois funeral home, Richard Trentlage died on Sept. 21 at age 87.

His daughter Linda Bruun confirmed to the New York Times that the cause of death was congestive heart failure.

Millions of Americans grew up humming along to Trentlage’s catchy tune: “Oh, I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener.”

Trentlage, an advertising executive, reportedly came up with the jingle in just an hour after learning that Oscar Mayer was in the market for a new song to help sell its hot dogs. It debuted in the early 1960s and became the meat company’s primary advertising jingle in over 20 English-speaking countries around the world for half a century.

The song was retired in 2010, but has not been forgotten as plenty on social media paid tribute to the songwriter with a post or Tweet.

NEW YORK (AP) – Jack Riley, who played a counseling client on "The Bob Newhart Show" and also voiced a character on Nickelodeon’s animated "Rugrats," died Friday. The 80-year-old actor died in Los Angeles, according to his representative Paul Doherty.

Besides portraying grumpy, self-absorbed Mr. Carlin on the 1970s "Newhart" sitcom and providing the voice for absent-minded dad Stu Pickles on "Rugrats" and its spinoff, "All Grown Up!," Riley appeared in the Mel Brooks films "History of the World: Part I," ”High Anxiety" and "Spaceballs."

In a statement, Newhart said Riley created one of TV’s "most endearing" situation comedy characters with his Carlin portrayal.